Image: Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg
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Description: Tycho Brahe's Stjerneborg from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, Amsterdam 1662, vol. 1
This image is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving by Willem Blaeu of the Stjerneborg observatory circa 1595. It is taken from an Atlas by his son, Joan Blaeu, published in 1662 in Amsterdam. It is based on a woodcut originally published in Brahe's own Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598)
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